ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 14, 2005 - Fulfilling promises made when it acquired the Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue List (NSTC) last year, ProQuest Information and Learning has released the seminal 19th century bibliographic database on the Chadwyck-Healey™ technology platform. ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, is an electronic publisher of content for libraries and educational institutions worldwide.

“NSTC is becoming the cornerstone of our 19^th-century publishing program. This product release is a natural next step in our publishing plans for the period from the beginning of the 19^th century to the end of World War I.  We have long offered research solutions for the 19^th century through products such as American Periodicals Series, PCI Full Text and ProQuest Historical Newspapers.  This new release gives scholars and students an even better finding tool to access our extensive resources and those of others for one of the most-studied periods,” said Suzanne BeDell, vice president, publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning. 

NSTC includes bibliographic records of well-known and obscure works of literature, important translations, legal documents, political pamphlets, medical and scientific monographs, journals, and periodicals.  Records for more than 1.2 million titles published in the United Kingdomand the United Statesbetween 1801 and 1919 are included. 

The latest release includes:

• OpenURL outbound linking to ensure direct access from citations to records in other OpenURL compliant databases, such as a library OPAC
• Searching and browsing of multiple index fields, including author, author lifespan, title, publisher, imprint, and subject heading and classification number
• Ability to create a marked list, and re-run or combine search sets from Search History
• My Archive feature allowing users to save searches and assemble links to documents in research archives for later use
• Citation software support, allowing direct export of citations for use with bibliographic software packages.

 

Future enhancements to NSTC are planned, including the addition of relevant 19^th-century bibliographic records from American Periodicals Series Online and Periodicals Contents Index that can link out to full-text articles in APS and PCI Full Text.

The renowned bibliographic database catalogs the 19^th-century holdings of eight of the world’s top research libraries:   The British Library, the Bodleian Library (Oxford), the Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Dublin, the National Library of Scotland, the Newcastle University Library, plus holdings from 1816 to 1919 of the Harvard University Library and the Library of Congress. It was originally developed by Avero Publications, beginning in 1983 and completed in 2002.   

Free trials are available. Libraries may receive more information by contacting their account representative at 1-800-521-0600, ext. 3183 or 3452 (outside the U.S., call +44-1-223-215-512) or pqsales@il.proquest.com. Editors may call 1-800-521-0600, ext. 6489 or email pr@il.proquest.com.

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